According to Andors (1983), the concept of liberation has been extended by the intellectuals, who, according to Wolf (1985), postponed the revolution to a period of reform. It is argued that the discrimination against women has taken birth because of these economic reforms; this is not only one, but it also failed in the upbringing of women to the equal levels of men. Liu (1995), mentions that the results can be noticed in the labor force which is stratified by the gender where women are forced to engage themselves in low paid occupations. Bian, in 1987, says that it has created a double burden of gender roles like family responsibilities and in the work field .
In addition, Brave et al. (1992) mention that women lack employment opportunities and have low educational backgrounds. Lastly Dalsimer & Ninsof (1984), Summer field (1994) write that during the economic reforms the layoff got higher and likewise the discrimination against hiring of women in the increased discrimination against women in hiring increased. The changes in labour policy since the reform have had a profound but not always positive impact on women [4]. Economic restriction has a very real and gendered bearing on women, as reflected by their dilemmas and opportunities in unemployment,re-employment and self-employment. In other words, for many women, whether they can maintain a job, how they enter and exit from the job market, and what kind of jobs are available to them have been largely determined by the reshuffling of the labour force as a result of economic restrictions.
Self-employment is an outlet for women to avoid the gendered job market since one does not have to go through possibly discriminatory hiring processes and can, to some extent, choose the type of business; allowing women to transcend their traditional family roles self-employment has contributed to the rise of a considerable number of prosperous individual business women in china. However, this has proven to be no easy undertaking for women because, under China’s current conditions, traditional gender roles in the family are yet to be reconstructed. Individual businesswomen are often caught in a dilemma; on the one hand, they have to be strong-willed, smart, and very hard-working to compete in a still largely male-dominated business world; on the other hand, they are often expected to play the traditional motherly and wifely roles in the family, though many of them cry out of understanding from society and their families [5].
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